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THE WEEKLY LINCOLN PROGRESS. LINCOLNTON, N. C SATURDAY, : : : MAY 8, 1875, THIRD VOLUME. With last week’s issue the Progress began its third year as a public jour nal, and we are happy to state that its success is established beyond peradven ture. In the future, as in the past, we shall labor to make it a welcome visitor to every family fireside. Our people are begining to appreciate the importance of having a paper published in their own county, and are rallying with commendable zeal to its support. We almost feel flattered at this evi dence of appreciation, coming as it does, from the bone and sinew of our county. It is an established fact that a county without a newspaper is com paratively unknown to the outer world, and its resources lie hidden in obscurity. It has been our endeavor from the outset to bring this matter prominently before the public that they may see the inducements held out by Lincoln county. What we need is capitalist-—men who are able and willing to build up manufactories, improve our soil, and thus enhance the value of our lands and personal property. Thon, and not before, will our people realize that they are General R. E. Lee. In an address before the Lee Me morial Association in Baltimore, on Saturday evening last, Mr. S. Teackle Wallace read the following heretofore unpublished letter of Gen. Robert E. Lee: And here I am permitted, by the kindness of a friend, to read some ex tracts from a letter of the illustrious soldier, which have never seen the light before, and which will show through what sad struggles, of both heart and mind, be passed to what he felt to be hisduty. I doubt not—nay, I know—that many a gallant gentle man who fought beside him, andmany anotherin the opposing host, grieved, his sword. The letter that I speak of bears the date of Jan. 16. 1861, and was written from Fort Mason, near San Antonio, in Texas. It was ad dressed to a young lady, a relative of his, for whom he had great affection, m C: to her father. Alluding to the homes of two families of friends, he said : I think of the occupants of both very often, and hope some day to see them again. I may have the opportunity soon ; for if the Union is dissolved I shall return to Virginia to share the fortune of my people. But before so great a calamity befalls the country I hope all honorable means of main taining the Constitution and the equal rights of the people will be first ex hausted. Tell your father he must not allow Maryland to be tacked on to South Carolina beforethe just demands of the South have been fairly present ed to the North and rejected. Then if the rights guaranteed by the Con stitution are denied us, and the citi zens of one portion of the country are- granted privileges not extended to the The Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775. Resolved, That whosoever directly or indirectly abutted, or in any way, form or manner countenanced the ini- is an enemy to this country, to Amer ica and to the inherent and inaliena ble rights of man. Resolved, That we, the citizens of Mecklenburg county, do hereby,dis solve the political bonds which have connected us with the mother country, and hereby absolve ourselves from al! allegiance to the British Crown, and abjure all political connection,contract or association with that nation, who have wantonly trampled on our rights and liberties and inhumanly shed the blood of American patriots at Lexing ton. Resolved, That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent peo- sovereign and self-governing associa tion, under the control of no power other than that of our God and the to the maintenance of sfhiVh'TTde- pendence we solomnly pledge to each other our mutual co-op^ration\oiii- lives,.our fortunes and our most Staled honor. Resolved, That as we acknowledge the existence and control of no’Uw, nor legal office, civil or military, with in this county, we do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life, all. each, and every of our former laws; where in, nevertheless, the Crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or authority therein. Resolved, That it is further decreed ccr in this county is hereby retained in his former command ami authority he acting conformably to these regu lations; and that every member pres ent of this delegation shall henceforth ANOTHER CYCLONE. Great Damage at Columbia. Augusta, May 3—The storm struck Railroad as it was leaving Rutledge. Many trees are across the track. Dr. Montgomery’s house near Rutledge was blown down and his son foul- years old was blown away. John Nor ton’s wife and child were badly hurt at Covington. The Augusta Constitutionalist says: “Georgia and South Carolina have ly equal in intensity, fury and destruc tiveness to the one of the 20th of March. At 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon a brief dispatch was recieved from Rut ledge, a village of 300 inhabitants on the Georgia Railroad, 115 miles from Augusta, that every house in the town except the railroad depot, had just been blown down by a cyclone, and a great many people were supposed to be killed and wounded along its track. The tornado was passing when the dispatch was sent, and, notwithstand- the afternoon and until 12 o'clock last night, nothing further could be heard from there. The wire’s from hence to after the reception of the di: living in peace and upon them, selves and 1 new era, and that prosperity is beaming They must arouse them- shake off the lethargy which has so long entramoled them. Their first effort to accomplish this end should be to make thier county paper the favorite in their family over full others, which would inspire it with renewed zeal in battling for their in terests in the cause of industry and prosperity. separate. I am for maintaining all our rights, not for abandoning all for the sake of one. Our national rights, liberty at home and security abroad, our lands, navy, forts, dock-yards, arsenals, and institutions- of every kind. It will result in war I know, fierce, bloody war. But so will seces sion, for it is revolution and war at last, and can not be otherwise, and we might as well look at it in its true character. There is a long message, B , for your father, and a grave one, which I bad not intended to put in my letter to you, but it is a subject on which my serious thoughts often turn, for as an American citizen I prize my government and country be a civilized officer, a justice of the peace, in the character of a com mitteeman, to issue process, hear and determine all matters of controversy, according to said adopted laws, and to preserve peace, union and harmony in said county, and to use every ex ertion to spread the love of country and fire of freedom throughout Amer ica, until a general organized govern ment be established in this provirfec. Commutation Bill for Lost and Disable Limbs, The Raleigh Capital says, we un derstand that, owing to a publication Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company of Virginia. With a view of bringing this well known and deservedly populaf Com pany nearer home to our people, and oflending our aid toward removing the apparent difficulties which, hitherto, have deterred so many persons from availing said Company in the town of Lincolnton, N. C., for the purpose of giving, free of of facilitating the Company’s investments in our midst, forwarding Pemiumsof Poli cy Holders, and collecting death claims for widows and orphans. spection of the Northern and Western Insurance Departments has a deposit in Raleigh for the protection of N. C. Policy Holders, and we feel prepared to commend it to the citizens of Lincoln county as emi nently worthy of their confidence and support. W. II. MOTZ, Pres’t. J. I). SHAW, Sec’y. Executive Committee: W. A. Costner, I. R. Self, Dr. J. A. Reedy J. A. Robinson, Dr. J. M. Richardson, Robert Sowers, J.C. Aderholdt. Columbia, May 1.—A hurricane of at about 5 p. m.. doing an immense amount of destruction to property, houses, trees and fences. The steeple of the Presbyterian Church was the first to come down with a crash. Squier’s furniture store has been en tirely demolished, and the sheds and offices of the Charleston and Green ville Railroad have been blown down. All the fences lying broadside to the hurricane are down. The State House has been unroofed, and the new Palmet to tree in front snapped like a reed. The city is covered with the debris of fallen chimneys, trees and fences. One unroofed. The hurricane was fearful while it lasted, which was about thir ty minutes.” A youth,who desired to know how to become rich, sent a quarter in answer following valuable recipe: itures. Work eighteen hours a day and liv e on hash and oatmeal gruel. - “1 should think you would be ashamed to pitch into that little boy COMMERCIAL LINCOLNTON MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY BY 51. t. ECDY. Cotton, Flour,. “ Old. Cats,.. Butter silt- Bacon—I Iains, Lard,.... Tallow,. Liauors- Shoulders, Sides, 866 141 .so 000.3.56 . 00^85 001)66 00 006680 . 00@60 . 206*25 . 206$ .81 750)0 00 ,S1 206( 0 30 . 0006( 15 , 116612 . 000@15 0^08 .$1 50@2 00 CHARLOTTE MARKETS. FROM THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Inferior Ordinary Good ordinary Middling Low Middling. COTTON. 10a 124 000 a 00 13 a!4j 14& a 14 ga A Female Pickpockets An English lady pickpocket— 7 Miss Clay alias Spencer, alias Wilson—was some little time ago sentenced in Paris to three years’ imprisonment. In the female Penitentiary of St. Lazaro her conduct is described as exemplary. She knelt down devotedly at mass, very frequently communicated, and so gained the confidence of the Sisters of Charity in charge that, after an un usually short period of probation, she was allowed the run of the prison without being watched. Availing her self of this privilege she slipped into one of the sister’s cells, and, speedily dressing herself in the costume of a nun, walked straight out into the street, the wardens saluting her as she passed. She was not missed till three hours after her escape, and the efforts of the police to apprehend her have been hitherto unsuccessful. Being well known to her countrymen of the light fingered fraternity domiciled in Paris it is supposed that their gallan try has found means to send her to London. At the junction of Green and Bear Butter,.... Chickens, Flour, Corn,. Meal,. Oats,.. Peas,. .$3 25(660 00 . 920G . 0060 0 . 7060 .. 1 00Q 0 00 HOKE & SHAW, Solicitors in Bankruptcy, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Sept. 19-1 y B. C. COBB, ATTORNEY AT LAW sept 19-ly R. J. SHIPP, dVttoi’nev sit T^avu THE DIFFICULTIES OF AN EDITOR. An editor cannot step without tread ing on some body’s toes. If he express es his opinions fearlessly and frankly, he is arrogant and presumptuous. If he states acts without comments, be dare hot avow his sentiments. If he eon- scienuously refuses to advocate the claimsofan individual to office, hois accused of personal hostility. A jackan apes, who hands him a parcel of stuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails and a gimblet, and if the editor be not kind enough to print ’the non sense,—“Stop my paper; I won’t patronize a man that’s no better judge of poetry.” One murmurs because bis papcris too literary ; another because it is not literary enough. One grum bles because the advertisements en gross too much room ; another com plains that the paper is too large; he cant find time to read it all. One wants the type so small that a micro scope would be indespensable in every family; another threatens to discon tinue his paper unless the letters are half an inch long. Ono old lady act ually offered an additional price for a paper that should be printed with such type as should be used for handbills. In fact every subscriber has a plan of his own for conducting a journal, and the labor ofSysyphus was recreation when compared with that of an editor who undertakes to please all. cent Tjcn’islaturc to.the affect that that bootblack cufing a small newsboy. not willing to make for their preserva tion, save that of hohor. I trust there is wisdom and patriotism enough in the country to save them, for I can not anticipate so great a calamity to nation as the dissolution of Union. the the Worth Knowing. On last Friday we saw in town John Satterwhite Esq., a worthy farmer of Granville, in the enjoyment of vigor ous health—as good as he has ever had. He was thought some months ago to be dying of Consumption. He had hemorrhages from the lungs, had a dreadful cough and seemed distined soon for the grave. He tells us that his restoration to health was secured tation to State soldier of the late Con federacy for the loss of their arms, a largo number are preparing to visit the city in order to take advantage of the supposed act. Several have al ready arrived and met with bitter/frs- appoilament. N^ sutii act -si* >>-a^ announced passed both bodies of Lbc gave his nose a wipe. “D’ye think i’d go for a big boy and get all pounded up ?” House er reached in the sorry it did not. But as such is the fact, our exchanges would confer a favor upon these pool- men by giving them the proper infor mation. Capture of Whales. On Thursday the wife who is not a handsome woman is lefii at home. A Rome Tragedy. In her last letter from Rome, A nne lar echoes that arc heard there. One writer who noted the remarkable re- verberations, says that when a gun is >r a moment, then, with suddcnnes,tho echo is heard, five miles to the south—whence it comes back in separate and distinct the sound, until apparently directly opposite, when a full volume of sound is returned ; then once more the echo far to the eastward. Lincolnton, N. C. 1874. STOCK. 18K GOOD row CAOOCI^ Z QUALITY AND LOW PRI give as it may be of service to other afflicted people. He had seen a notice in the papers of persons being greatly benefitted by drinkinga tea made from mullen (yerbascum in Botany) that grows wild. He began to drink it in place of his coffee at breakfast and supper, and it wrought the great change and cure for him. Mr. Satterwhite is worthy of credit “bankers ” living on the Bogue Banks, opposite Morehead City, espying one of the monsters of the deep, soon gave and are in solitary confinement, with out books, pen and ink, or even light at night. The explanation of the mance. Soon after the entry of the Italians into Rome, a secret was form- and the writer has known him many years.— Torch Tight. Warning to the Girls. A Canadian newspaper records for the Mississippi were attacted by the alli gators basking in the sunshine. “Are | they amphibious, Captain?” asked al INFORM my customers and the pub- loo! answered the ‘•Amphibious. thunder!” C officer. minute NEW STOt’K OF FALL The Petersburg Index Appeal, speak ing of the sad news of Gen. John C. Breckinridge’s slow but steady decline in health, thus concludes a beautiful and deserved tribute to that high- souled citizen: “Since the war, as the country knows, Gen. Breckinridge has been living on strict retirement, refusing to take any part in public life, and even refraining from any concern or con versation on political events. Years ago, as if with some promotion of the wasting disease that has so re duced him, ho sadly pronounced him self “an extinct volcano,” and con sistently and faithfully he has kept bis own counsel ever since. A brilliant orator, a scholar and states man of rare and rich resources, the country and his own Kentucky have lost all echo of his voice since the fate that fell on him when the Confederacy failed. Perhaps the shock broke bis heart too, as it did our own Jjee’s, and it may be the decay which has crept slowly over the noble frame—what man oven saw a more royal presence ? bad its root in the man’s affections, where sorrow and regret ate their secrot way. The South could lose 110 grander ‘lion of the tribe of Judah’ than John C. Breckinridge, and Ken tucky no son whose name reflects more lustre on her shield and on her annals. Poverty is very terrible to you, and kills the soul in you sometimes; but it is the north wind that lashed men into vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind that lulls to lotus dreams. recent sudden death of a young woman at Tilsonbury, which conveys warning against a very pernicious habit. One evening the girl retired to bed, apparently in perfect health. In the middle of the night the family were awakened by a noise in her room, and when they entered found her insensible, stiff and cold. The doctor was sent for and he applied such remedies as partly restored animation, but, notwithstanding ’all her friend’s effots, the girl died at 1 p. m. the following day. The cause of her death could not bo correctly ascertained, but it is supposed to have been an apoplectic fit induced by sleeping with a tight laced corset. Her father acknowledged that she was in the habit of wearing a corset in bed, and that he had warned her of the danger of the practice. We hear of a remarkable instance of a cat nursing a young rat. Mr. J. A. Merryman, of Marlboro, we are re liably informed, several weeks ago caught four young rats, eyes not then open, and gave them to a cat to eat. She ate three of them but has kept the other ever si nce nursing i t j ust as she docs her young kittens of which she had several born just before the rats were given to her. This has been seen by twenty or more, persons of that vicinity.. We arc furthermore inform ed that this same cat is also nursing a young puppy, which does not seem altogether so remarkable as the other however, as cats do not often eat pup pies, but are supposed always to eat rats when they get an opportunity. TWfton (A 7 . C.) Plaindealer. A policeman met a negro at night earring a trunk along the street, and collared him. The negro explained: 1- De family what was boarding me has been axing for money, and as dey was gone out to night I thought I would get. into some family whar dey respected de panic.” the harpoon thrown, and the whalemen and their boat was instantly following the wake of a fish, measuring about forty-five feet in length, in his rapid coiirso through the water. Finding all efforts to escape unavailing, the whale soon checked his headlong career, and showed fight. The murderous bomb and the no less effective lance mastered him, however, and he was,towed to the beach to be cut up and made into oil. It is estimated that he will yield 500 gallons. On the same day another whale was captured and killed on Sbakloford Banks, about eight miles from Beau fort and ten miles from More bc^d. This was a cow and a much larger animal than the other, measuring more than seventy feet in length and 2,000 gallons of oil. She was despatched in much the same manner as the other, a harpoon, bomb and lance be ing the wepons used. A lauge excursion party from this city went down on an extra train yesterday, for the purpose of viewing the great fishes.—Newbery Journal of | Commerce. This society took the old-time name “Carbonari” and one of the old laws of these Carbonari societies is that any member who opposes the will of the An Irishman with a heavy bundle on his shoulder, riding on the front of a horse-car was asked why he did not set bis bundle on the platform. He replied: “Be jabbers, the horses have enough to drag me. I’ll carry the bundle.” WINTER DRY GOODS, Ready-Made Clothing, Of spontaneous combustion in the human body we have heard little lately. Many readers will remember the hot discussions which took place over Dickens’ horrible description in “Bleak House.” The French Society of Chirurgeons have taken up the matter of human spontaneouscombustion, and have decided in the negative. TRcre are no trust worthy cases of the kind recorded. This society docs not believe in the possibility of such combustion. Its faith is quite as weak as that of Mr. Timbs, AI. A., in “The Centen- arians. drunkards will not catch fire. The flesh of those who have all thier lives been drunk as lords, is not more inflammable than the flesh of others who may have been sober as kings. Even when olcobol has been injeened into the veins dogs, untiEthe animal tissues were saturated, it has failed to burn. merits death. This autumn, Luciani was decided upon as the carbonari candidate for Parliament by an over whelming majority in the lodge. Just after that decision Sonzogno discover ed that Luciani was his wife’s lover. His wife left him and he became th? open enemy of Luciani. The columns of Sonzogno’s paper, the Capital, open ed hot fire on the nomination of Luciani, and through the period of election that journal and its editors were powerful adversaries of the young Deputy. A meeting was held of the Carbonari, and Sonzogno was sentenced to death for opposing a private vengeance to the will of the society. Lots were drawn and to Pio Frezza fell the sad fate of fulfilling the task of assassin. This man, Pio Frezza, does not even know Luciani by sight. He is simply an agent of the society, all of whose members are now awaiting trial for murder. Dan. Davis of Virginia City paid a visit to Promontory, on the Central Pacific Railroad, and was charmed with the manners and customs—al most patriarchal in their frank sim plicity—of the people. He stopped at the principal hotel of the town. It was a nice place, and the landlord was a very agreeable and friendly sort of a man. Says Dan: “When dinner was ready the landlord come out into the street in front of his hotel with a double-barreled into shot-gun. Raising the gun above his head he fired off one barrel. I said to him. ‘What did you do that for?’ said he; ‘To call my boar ders to dinner.’ I said, ‘Why don’t you fire off both barrels?’ ‘Oh,’ said he, ‘I keep the other to collect with.’ ” Where the m^nth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always a look Retaliation is simply meanness for meanness, debasement for debasement cowardice for cowardice. A good book and a good woman are excellent things for those who know justly to appreciate their value. IN THE PROBATE COURT. Wm. Roots, Shoes, flats and Caps, Shawls, Blankets, HOISERY, NOTIONS, &c. My large and carefully selected stock for the Fall and Winter is now in store, and I respectfully invite all in search of good goods and low prices to call and ex amine for themselves. PRINTS! PRINTS!! PRINTS!! A large stock of the latest patterns, at prices that cannot be excelled. Respectfully, EBEN CHILDS. oet 31.1874—tf Taylor and others vs. Nancy-'*' Hull and others. Special Proceeding. IT APPEARING TO 'THE SATISFAC- 1 faction of the Court that Luther Hull, one of the defendants in the above stated Special Proceeding is a non-resident, of this State: It is therefore ordered that publication be made for six successive weeks in the Lincoln Progress notifying said Luther Hull to be appeal- before the undersigned on the 29th day of May, 1875, and answer or demurer to the com plaint therein filed. Given under my hand and seal this 13th day of April, 1875. W.M. REINHARDT, Clerk Superior Court Lincoln Co. JOHNSON’S HOTEL, HMIIS HOUSE HAS CLOSED OUTAS A I public inn, but has re-opened as a Private Boarding House, where the weary may find rest and hunger alloyed. Transportation to surrounding country, on reasonable terms. nine Allum Well. JOHNSON, Proprietor. Carolina Central Railway. NOTICE. I have sold my stock of Drugs to W. M. REEDY & CO., and would respectfully recommend them to the patronage of my friends and customers. ON and after Monday, Nov. 16th, the fol lowing schedule will be run over the Western Division of this Road : Aug. 1874. J. M. LA WING. “ Lincolnton, Arrive Buffalo, GOING Leave Buffalo Depot, “ Lincolnton, Arrive Charlotte, 8- a. m. 10:43 “ 32 M. &$7 4:20 V. Q'. JOHNSON, W. M. REEDY & CO A rustic youngster, being asked out to take tea with a friend, was admon ished to praise the eatables. Presently the butter was passed to him, when ho remarked, “Very nice butter what there is of it,” and observing a smile, he added, “and plenty of it -such a^itie.” -■ It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross was in our composition. Some people inform you, with a triumphant giggle, that they don t - travel in the old rats. As a general | to flounder along, in the mud., as too I many enterprising geniuses of to-day I are doing. REMOVEI> their i>i«.uo ^toiue COBB’S CORNER, where they will be pleased to see their friends and customers. Stock of I^KIT’O Dl-llg’S complete. aug 224y J. A. Stockton, FASH TON ABLE' R espectfully informs the cit- izens of Lincolnton and. surrounding country that he'has opened a shop rn Lin colnton, and is prepared to do all work in g^'Shop east side Public Square, two doors south of Progress office.
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